Sometimes they come back, plant version
Apr. 10th, 2016 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlLast year I dug up a bunch of plants I didn't want in my landscaping. I thought I got all of the root, but lo! There's that hosta, back and leafier than ever. At least it looks healthy this year. Last year, slugs kinda had free reign. I also cut back this other thing. I don't know what this thing even is, but it's big and sprawling and looks very unhealthy. I cut back the worst of it and... no surprise, it's back and bigger than ever. *bleepity bleep*
Just spend the afternoon digging out 80% of the landscaping in the front, replanting some and hopefully destroying The Thing once and for all. I'm not holding my breath. Digging out roots is hard work, and then trying to remove a honking, sprawling plant and its root system ... my back is killing me. Tomorrow, I'm having rock delivered. I'm sure my back feels amazing compared to how it's going to feel after I spread 1200 lbs of rock. I took the week off of work. People asked if I was going to do anything fun. I'd like to, but I suspect it's going to be more like this: heavy labor tomorrow, heavy recovery the rest of the week. I would do it piecemeal, but it's supposed to rain starting Tuesday. *sigh*
To think I was considering laying a paver patio by myself. No. No way can I dig up all the grass (read: moss) and then dig another 6 inches down on a 10x10 area and not murder my lower back. I will get there. Maybe not this year but I will. The ultimate goal there is to reduce the amount of lawn to deal with.
I'm so disappointed in myself, though. I had to resort to chemicals for weed killing. I have tried various means of abatement, nothing works. The grass and weeds laugh at the newspaper/cardboard barrier idea. "Natural" weed killers do work, temporarily. It's all temporary, really. The weeds that really make me angry are the driveway crack weeds. Mothereffers. I didn't realize how cracked my driveway was.
That's all. I feel I earned the onion rings I'm having for dinner. I am so tired.
Just spend the afternoon digging out 80% of the landscaping in the front, replanting some and hopefully destroying The Thing once and for all. I'm not holding my breath. Digging out roots is hard work, and then trying to remove a honking, sprawling plant and its root system ... my back is killing me. Tomorrow, I'm having rock delivered. I'm sure my back feels amazing compared to how it's going to feel after I spread 1200 lbs of rock. I took the week off of work. People asked if I was going to do anything fun. I'd like to, but I suspect it's going to be more like this: heavy labor tomorrow, heavy recovery the rest of the week. I would do it piecemeal, but it's supposed to rain starting Tuesday. *sigh*
To think I was considering laying a paver patio by myself. No. No way can I dig up all the grass (read: moss) and then dig another 6 inches down on a 10x10 area and not murder my lower back. I will get there. Maybe not this year but I will. The ultimate goal there is to reduce the amount of lawn to deal with.
I'm so disappointed in myself, though. I had to resort to chemicals for weed killing. I have tried various means of abatement, nothing works. The grass and weeds laugh at the newspaper/cardboard barrier idea. "Natural" weed killers do work, temporarily. It's all temporary, really. The weeds that really make me angry are the driveway crack weeds. Mothereffers. I didn't realize how cracked my driveway was.
That's all. I feel I earned the onion rings I'm having for dinner. I am so tired.
